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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Practical Ethics, by William DeWitt Hyde This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Practical Ethics Author: William DeWitt Hyde Release Date: January 20, 2008 [EBook #24372] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRACTICAL ETHICS *** Produced by Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier, Lisa Reigel, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes: Text in italics in the original is surrounded by _underscores_. Text in bold in the original is surrounded by +plus signs+. A complete set of corrections follows the text. PRACTICAL ETHICS BY WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE, D. D. _President of Bowdoin College_ NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY HENRY HOLT & CO. THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS, RAHWAY, N. J. PREFACE. The steady stream of works on ethics during the last ten years, rising almost to a torrent within the past few months, renders it necessary for even the tiniest rill to justify its slender contribution to the already swollen flood. On the one hand treatises abound which are exhaustive in their presentation of ethical theory. On the other hand books are plenty which give good moral advice with great elaborateness of detail. Each type of work has its place and function. The one is excellent mental gymnastic for the mature; the other admirable emotional pabulum for the childish mind. Neither, however, is adapted both to satisfy the intellect and quicken the conscience at that critical period when the youth has put away childish things and is reaching out after manly and womanly ideals. The book which shall meet this want must have theory; yet the theory must not be made obtrusive, nor stated too abstractly. The theory must be deeply imbedded in the structure of the work; and must commend itself, not by metaphysical deduction from first principles, but by its ability to comprehend in a rational and intelligible order the concrete facts with which conduct has to do. Such a book must be direct and practical. It must contain clear-cut presentation of duties to be done, virtues to be cultivated, temptations to be
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